Global Warming and Climate Change News

Letter: Man-caused global warming a hoax (AG Weekly)
Sunday March 16th 2008, 1:21 pm

As a plant scientist, I am concerned that Idaho and most states are planning to limit and reduce Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. This is being done to supposedly reduce global warming. [News Source]

Survey: Glacier melt ‘accelerating’
Sunday March 16th 2008, 11:31 am

HOPAR, PAKISTAN - JULY 6:  A boy looks at the Hopar glacier on July 6, 2007 in the Central Hunza Region, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan.  This year is on track to becoming the second warmest year in record since the 1860s, according to climate experts, with severe floods in Pakistan and heat waves in China and Greece. At the present rate of climate change, the Himalayan glaciers, the primary source of water for Pakistan, may disappear in 40 to 50 years, which could cause serious water shortages. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)Glaciers are shrinking at record rates and many could disappear within decades, the U.N. Environment Program said Sunday.


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Two sessions to address climate change (Portsmouth Herald)
Sunday March 16th 2008, 6:04 am

Climate change and its effects on wildlife and flooding will be addressed in two upcoming local forums. [News Source]

Hotel pollution drives fish away - UWI scientist downplays impact of climate change (Jamaica Gleaner)
Sunday March 16th 2008, 3:45 am

IN RESPONSE to a recent Gleaner story which related that scientists had zeroed in on climate change and the global warming phenomenon as the major factor driving shoals of fish from Caribbean waters, University of the West Indies lecturer, Dr Karl Aiken says this is not entirely true. [News Source]

Industry groups are quick to attack Warner’s climate-change initiative (Daily Press)
Sunday March 16th 2008, 3:44 am

S en. John Warner 's bill to tackle climate change, likely one of the last big legislative efforts from Virginia's Republican senior senator, has come under attack from the same contingent — industry — that has gone after every attempt to respond to global warming. [News Source]